Krillion Recorded answers
6,313 recorded answers
How to approach it
Reverse the usual move: instead of hunting for one item, generate a wide field of candidates quickly, then test each against the date. Choose a broad arena of old practical life — the household, the building site, the workshop, the battlefield, the sickroom — and jot down five or six concrete things from each, written with the precise term a specialist would use rather than the everyday word. Scrutiny comes next: does a written source place the thing before 1500, and is it an object, a technique or a system rather than a plant, a dish or a drink? Width first, judgement afterwards. Since the reveal rewards volume, keep extending the shortlist and note spelling variants of every entry, because a narrow technical label is often the form the list accepts.
Get a hint
Begin with the working capital of ordinary life in antiquity: the tools, containers, fastenings and structures people handled daily rather than the ceremonial pieces kept for the powerful.
A little more
Narrow next to problems that demanded a designed solution — keeping accounts, lifting water, marking the hour, landing a blow in combat, closing a wound — and ask whether a documented remedy predates 1500.
One step further
Finally, favour the specialist's label over the household word: a single implement, one named building element or a particular notation usually sits in reference works under a term nobody says aloud today.
Reveal answers 6,313
- CharmstoneDeep Cut85points
- Charonian stepsDeep Cut85points
- ChashakuDeep Cut85points
- ChasubleDeep Cut85points
- ChatraDeep Cut85points
- ChaturajiDeep Cut85points
- ChaturangaDeep Cut85points
- ChauparDeep Cut85points
- ChaussesDeep Cut85points
- ChazozraDeep Cut85points
- Check damDeep Cut85points
- Check valveDeep Cut85points
- Cheese agingDeep Cut85points
- Cheese pressDeep Cut85points
- Cheese pressingDeep Cut85points
- Cheese strainerDeep Cut85points
- CheiroballistraDeep Cut85points
- CheirosiphonDeep Cut85points
- ChekkerDeep Cut85points
- ChelandionDeep Cut85points
- Chemin de rondeDeep Cut85points
- ChemiseDeep Cut85points
- CheollikDeep Cut85points
- ChequeDeep Cut85points
- Chevron beadDeep Cut85points
- Chew stickDeep Cut85points
- ChhajjaDeep Cut85points
- ChhatriDeep Cut85points
- Chi (flute)Deep Cut85points
- ChicahuaztliDeep Cut85points
- Chicken coopDeep Cut85points
- ChigiDeep Cut85points
- ChiljeongsanDeep Cut85points
- ChimiDeep Cut85points
- ChinampaDeep Cut85points
- Chinese calendarDeep Cut85points
- Chinese era nameDeep Cut85points
- Chinese financial numeralsDeep Cut85points
- Chinese knottingDeep Cut85points
- Chinese numismatic charmDeep Cut85points
- Chinese puzzle ballDeep Cut85points
- Chinese ten-day weekDeep Cut85points
- Chinese treasure shipDeep Cut85points
- Chip carvingDeep Cut85points
- ChirographDeep Cut85points
- ChitonDeep Cut85points
- ChiweiDeep Cut85points
- ChlainaDeep Cut85points
- ChlamysDeep Cut85points
- ChlanisDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
The scoring here is unusually flat: a single recorded pick took the full hundred, while more than five thousand earned eighty-five and seven hundred more stopped at sixty. That shape points to a closed list graded by rarity rather than by correctness — nearly everything submitted was accepted and then levelled. The lone maximum went to Pythagorean cup, an ingenious contrivance few players would reach for. The eighty-five band is vast and reads like a catalogue of specialist vocabulary: Ab anbar, Abat-son, Abatis, Abjad numerals, Acinaces, Acoustic jar, Acta Diurna. Each is a real thing from before 1500, yet each sits inside a niche — water supply, architecture, fortification, notation, armament — so finding one depends on knowing that corner of the field, not on luck. The sixty-point tier, seven hundred strong, probably collects the more familiar choices that many players hit at once. The practical lesson: obvious picks keep you in the middle of the pack, and the extra points come from the technical term.